μύρον

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 12 August 2015

Etymology

From μύρω (múrō) according to the Ancients, and from μύρρα (múrrha) according to Athenaeus. Probably a foreign borrowing; compare Hebrew מֹר‎ (mōr).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mý.ron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmy.ron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ron/

Noun

μῠ́ρον • (múron) n (genitive μῠ́ρου); second declension

any sweet juice distilled from plants and used for unguents or perfumes
unguent, sweet oil, balsam
- Archilochus, Collected Works 27
1. place where unguents were sold, perfumery
  - Aristophanes, The Knights I375
2. (metaphoric) anything graceful, charming, lovely
  - Palatine Anthology 5.90

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ μῠ́ρον; τοῦ μῠ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῠ́ρον tò múron	τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ múrō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tà múra
Genitive	τοῦ μῠ́ρου toû múrou	τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn múroin	τῶν μῠ́ρων tôn múrōn
Dative	τῷ μῠ́ρῳ tôi múrōi	τοῖν μῠ́ροιν toîn múroin	τοῖς μῠ́ροις toîs múrois
Accusative	τὸ μῠ́ρον tò múron	τὼ μῠ́ρω tṑ múrō	τᾰ̀ μῠ́ρᾰ tà múra
Vocative	μῠ́ρον múron	μῠ́ρω múrō	μῠ́ρᾰ múra
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μῠρῐστῐκός (muristikós)

Descendants

Aramaic:
- → Classical Syriac: ܡܘܪܘܢ‎ (mūrōn)
⇒ Georgian: მირონი (mironi)
→ Old Armenian: միւռոն (miwṙon)
- Armenian: մյուռոն (myuṙon)
⇒ Old East Slavic: мѵро (müro)
- Russian: мѵ́ро (míro) (Pre-reform orthography (1918)), ми́ро (míro)
⇒ Romanian: mir
Serbo-Croatian: miris

References

μύρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μύρον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μύρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3464 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- balm idem, page 60.
- balsam idem, page 60.
- essence idem, page 283.
- nard idem, page 550.
- oil idem, page 572.
- ointment idem, page 572.
- perfume idem, page 607.
- salve idem, page 732.
- scent idem, page 738.
- unguent idem, page 920.

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